Władysław Broniewski

Władysław Broniewski (He lived in the years 1897 – 1962) He was the most outstanding poet of the Polish Social Left. He came from a family with great patriotic traditions, Already in 1915 year he joined the Legions of J. Piłsudski, He fought on the front. He was the hero of the Polish-Bolshevik war, He was awarded the Virtuti Militari Cross.

Already in the 1920s he had a very critical attitude towards independent Poland, He did not accept the social orders prevailing in it, political. Broniewski, Always sensitive to social harm, published several noteworthy volumes of poems in the interwar period (np. Dymny over the city, Care and song, Ultimate scream) dedicated to the proletariat, revolutionary movement, analysis of the then social situation. Propaganda, The agitation functions of these songs did not cross their great artistic values.

W 1940 The year Broniewski was arrested by the NKVD for protests against the USSR seizure of part of Poland and delivering patriotic poems. He was sent, Then released and found himself in the Middle East together with the Polish army. Outstanding volumes come from the war period: Bayonet for weapons and despairing tree. W 1945 year, the poet returned to the country.

Very painful, Personal tones appeared in Broniewski's lyrics after the tragic death of a twenty -five -year -old daughter in 1954 year. Such poems (There is a birch among them) They were collected in issued in 1956 year volume Anka, which is often compared with Jan Kochanowski's trainings.